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Post February 17 2025

Q&A: Author Kenneth C. Davis on the Founding Fathers and slavery, America's "great contradiction"

A conversation about U.S. history, the presidents and slavery and how we teach it
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Daily News Lesson August 06 2018

How Monticello's exhibit on Sally Hemings deepens our understanding of U.S. history
Share the story of Sally Hemings with your students and Monticello's latest efforts to set the historical record straight.

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